Cds on Demand
I'm out of the loop on these kinds of things, so it may be the norm, but I'd gotten some credit for Musicmatch downloads. I had to download the player, which I didn't want to do, since I've got so many now, but I found I quite enjoyed getting one song off an album for 99 cents instead of having to buy the whole thing. I know that's fairly common nowadays, but I had stayed away from it mostly since I went for the dvd player instead of the cd burner when I bought the computer a few years back and don't have an Ipod or its cousins, so downloaded music pretty much stays on my computer, making it less appealing.
Anyway, I started looking into Musicmatch's "On Demand" service, and as of right now, I'm impressed. Maybe the other music download sites and players do this, too, but for a flat fee of ten dollars a month, they let you stream entire albums from their 60,000 cd collection. There are some pretty big names that don't participate, AC/DC being the biggest absence I've noticed.
Overall, though, I've been impressed with how many artists and titles are available. U2, Pink Floyd, The Who, Sting, The Police, pretty much all the big names you'd think of are there. Even better, The Connells, The Pixies, Siouxsie and the Banshees, King Crimson, even the Jesus and Mary Chain are there. Relatively obscure stuff, at least in terms of a service like this. I'm not sure how soon new releases pop up, but I noticed several cd's from just one or two months back were available. As with Netflix, it'll probably save me enough in cd purchases a month to pay for itself. And then there are the cd's I've been interested in but never really wanted to sink money into. Plus, you can acess it from any computer, which is nice. Of course you only stream the music rather than download it, and you can only listen to it while online, but it seems to be a fairly nice, legal way of getting as much music as possible for as little money as possible. Thought some of you might be interested. They've got a seven day free trial for it.
http://www.musicmatch.com/
Anyway, I started looking into Musicmatch's "On Demand" service, and as of right now, I'm impressed. Maybe the other music download sites and players do this, too, but for a flat fee of ten dollars a month, they let you stream entire albums from their 60,000 cd collection. There are some pretty big names that don't participate, AC/DC being the biggest absence I've noticed.
Overall, though, I've been impressed with how many artists and titles are available. U2, Pink Floyd, The Who, Sting, The Police, pretty much all the big names you'd think of are there. Even better, The Connells, The Pixies, Siouxsie and the Banshees, King Crimson, even the Jesus and Mary Chain are there. Relatively obscure stuff, at least in terms of a service like this. I'm not sure how soon new releases pop up, but I noticed several cd's from just one or two months back were available. As with Netflix, it'll probably save me enough in cd purchases a month to pay for itself. And then there are the cd's I've been interested in but never really wanted to sink money into. Plus, you can acess it from any computer, which is nice. Of course you only stream the music rather than download it, and you can only listen to it while online, but it seems to be a fairly nice, legal way of getting as much music as possible for as little money as possible. Thought some of you might be interested. They've got a seven day free trial for it.
http://www.musicmatch.com/
posted by David Worrell @ 3:32 PM
2 Comments:
At 7:53 AM,
Stephen Tilson said…
I'll have to try them, as MusicMatch is my preferred CD authoring software...
I've got iTunes and RealPlayer too. iTunes allows you to import from MusicMatch, but not vice-versa. RealPlayer will let you import from iTunes or MusicMatch, but won't let anything you DL from them to be exported... and their CD burning doesn't allow volume-leveling or specifying space between tracks. Pity, too, as they're the only place I've been able to find the Connells songs I wanted.
At 4:43 PM,
David Worrell said…
I'm going to blog on this again, soon, but I'm absolutely loving this service. It was already saved me at least 25 bucks, so that's over two months service right there. On the other hand, I'll end up buying more cd's in the long run since I've rediscovered a bunch of stuff and found new things I hadn't planned on getting before. My recommendation is stronger now.
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